Path 2

Path 2

Mumford and Sons

January 30, 2013

Last year their exquisite Babel received as healthy a reception as could reasonably be expected, but don’t be fooled by the fact that Mumford & Sons are now superstars: Even when songs like “I Will Wait” and “Whispers In The Dark” bore by hitting their explosive climaxes like clockwork at the halfway point, and each side of that distressingly predictable apex is still as exciting as early 2009 gems like “The Cave” and “Little Lion Man,” or the hundreds of years of traditional tunes which in turn preceded those. These songs will probably just end up buried in a shallow grave of CDRs and USB flash drives, but in another era we might have found among them a handful of all-time classics.